Things you need:
Wiggly Eyes
Cotton Socks
Single Socks
3/8-inch Dowels
Styrofoam Balls
Batting
Craft Pompoms
Fabric Glue
Felt
Scrap Yarn
Cotton Swabs
Plastic Drinking Cups
Scissors
Construction Paper
Permanent Markers
Pipe Cleaners
Hand Puppet
Step 1:
Save a single clean sock. The sock needs to be large enough to fit loosely over a child's hand.
Step 2:
Gather craft supplies such as construction paper, permanent marker, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, cotton balls or batting.
Step 3:
Place hand in sock with thumb and fingers working like a mouth.
Step 4:
Mark lightly with a marker - areas for mouth, eyes, nose, and ears.
Step 5:
Cut ears and mouth from felt and glue in marked areas with fabric glue or craft glue.
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Stick Puppet
Step 1:
Use an adult-sized clean sock.
Step 2:
Gather craft supplies: Styrofoam balls, 3/8-inch dowel rod, plastic cups, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, craft pompoms, and cotton balls.
Step 3:
Push the dowel rod at an angle into the Styrofoam ball.
Step 4:
Cut four ear shapes for your puppet from felt.
Step 5:
Lay a pipe cleaner bent in half on one felt ear shape and glue the other felt ear shape on top - leaving about 1 inch of pipe cleaner sticking out of the bottom of the ear. This is what you will stick into the foam ball.
Step 6:
Place foam ball with dowel rod inside sock.
Step 7:
Glue on wiggle eyes, or draw eyes with a permanent marker.
Step 8:
Glue or draw on nose. Pompoms found in a store's craft department make cute noses.
Step 9:
Cut a small slit in the sock on the side of the head for the ears. Poke the pipe cleaner through the slit into the foam ball. Make pipe-cleaner antennas the same way.
Step 10:
Stuff the neck with batting. You will need to use enough batting to make the head stand up.
Step 11:
Cut a hole into the bottom of the plastic cup. Turn cup upside down and slide over dowel rod up inside the sock neck.
Step 12:
Move puppet by holding the cup and moving the dowel rod.
Things you need:
Wiggly Eyes
Cotton Socks
Single Socks
3/8-inch Dowels
Styrofoam Balls
Batting
Craft Pompoms
Fabric Glue
Felt
Scrap Yarn
Cotton Swabs
Plastic Drinking Cups
Scissors
Construction Paper
Permanent Markers
Pipe Cleaners
Hand Puppet
Step 1:
Save a single clean sock. The sock needs to be large enough to fit loosely over a child's hand.
Step 2:
Gather craft supplies such as construction paper, permanent marker, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, cotton balls or batting.
Step 3:
Place hand in sock with thumb and fingers working like a mouth.
Step 4:
Mark lightly with a marker - areas for mouth, eyes, nose, and ears.
Step 5:
Cut ears and mouth from felt and glue in marked areas with fabric glue or craft glue.
View All Steps
Stick Puppet
Step 1:
Use an adult-sized clean sock.
Step 2:
Gather craft supplies: Styrofoam balls, 3/8-inch dowel rod, plastic cups, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, craft pompoms, and cotton balls.
Step 3:
Push the dowel rod at an angle into the Styrofoam ball.
Step 4:
Cut four ear shapes for your puppet from felt.
Step 5:
Lay a pipe cleaner bent in half on one felt ear shape and glue the other felt ear shape on top - leaving about 1 inch of pipe cleaner sticking out of the bottom of the ear. This is what you will stick into the foam ball.
Step 6:
Place foam ball with dowel rod inside sock.
Step 7:
Glue on wiggle eyes, or draw eyes with a permanent marker.
Step 8:
Glue or draw on nose. Pompoms found in a store's craft department make cute noses.
Step 9:
Cut a small slit in the sock on the side of the head for the ears. Poke the pipe cleaner through the slit into the foam ball. Make pipe-cleaner antennas the same way.
Step 10:
Stuff the neck with batting. You will need to use enough batting to make the head stand up.
Step 11:
Cut a hole into the bottom of the plastic cup. Turn cup upside down and slide over dowel rod up inside the sock neck.
Step 12:
Move puppet by holding the cup and moving the dowel rod.